A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great, taken out of Diodorus Siculus: and some of their lives written by the wise Plutarch. Translated out of French into Englysh. by Thomas Stocker

¶ Eumenes vnderstanding that Antigone is commyng against him, departeth out of the countrey of Cilice. And when he hath by his wysedome and industrie es∣caped in the way the handes and ambushes of Seleuke, he commeth into Perse.

The .xxxj. Chapter.

FOr this noble and honorable victorie Antigone was greatly esteemed, & wan thereby much glory & repu∣tation, & therfore fully minded to be lord of the seas and emperor of Asie, wherfore he chose out of his whole armie .2000. footmen, & .4000. horse, with whō he spéedily marched into Cilice against Eumenes, thinking to ouer∣throw him before such time as he might assemble a gre∣ter army. But Eumenes being aduertised of his com∣myng, albeit he was willing to recouer in the name of the Kings, the Countrey of Phenicie, whiche Ptolome vniustly enioyed, séeing that the time then serued not, and especially bicause he still looked for the comming of Antigone, went from Phenicie with his whole armie, and with great spéede came through the countrey of Ce∣losirie, for that he ment to get vpon the hie Countrey of Syrie. And when he was néere the riuer Tygris, the peo∣ple of the Countrey, by night assailed him and slue some

of his souldiers. From thence marched he into the coun∣trey of Babilon, where Seleucke also assailed him about the riuer Eufrates, being in danger of loosing al his whole armie: bicause an arme of the Riuer which woonted to run through an olde ditche, was broken vp by Seleucke his souldioures, so that all Eumenes campe was ouer∣flowed. But through his wisdom and industrie, he reti∣red vnto an hill, and caused the entrie and mouth of the said ditch to be stopped vp, and turned the entercourse of the water, so by that meanes he readily saued bothe his person and armie from the hands of Seleucke, & with the losse of fiftene thousand foote men, & thrée thousand horsse, marched on into the Countrey of Perse. And after he had there a while soiourned, his soldiers yet through their long trauaile sore wearied, he sent towardes the Satrapes and gouernours of the higher Prouinces, com∣maunding them to send him men and money. And these were the things done that yeare in Asie.